Violin (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Animals 2 Entertainment 3 Locations 4 Mathematics 5 Music 5.1 Instruments 5.2 Albums and songs 5.3 Other 6 See also

A violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.

Violin may also refer to:

[edit] Animals

• Violin beetle, species of ground beetles

[edit] Entertainment

• Violin (novel), novel by Anne Rice
• Nude with Violin, 1950s play by Noel Coward
• Rothschild's Violin, opera by Veniamin Fleishman
• The Red Violin, 1998 film by François Girard
• The Steamroller and the Violin, 1960 short film by Andrei Tarkovsky

[edit] Locations

• Pulau Biola, island off the coast of Singapore that is also known as Violin Island

[edit] Mathematics

• Violin plot, box plot that illustrates probability density function

[edit] Music

[edit] Instruments

• Violin family, family of string based instruments developed in sixteenth century Italy
• Violin octet, family of string based instruments developed in twentieth century United States of America
• Bass violin,
• Baritone violin, violin variant either one octave below convention or the third largest member of the violin octet family
• Baroque violin, violin whose design is based in the baroque period
• Electric violin, electrical variant of the standard violin
• Five string violin, five string variant of the violin
• Kit violin, small violin designed to fit in a pocket
• Nail violin, instrument categorised as a friction idiophone
• Stroh violin, violin that uses metal resonators or metal horns to amplify sounds
• Tenor violin, instrument with a range between a cello and a viola

[edit] Albums and songs

• Violin (album), album by violinst Vanessa-Mae
• The Violin Player, album by violinist Vanessa-Mae
• Sounding the New Violin, album of collected twentieth century violin works
• Who Touched My Violin String, album by Zhou Bichang
• 1000 no Violin, single by The Blue Hearts
• Love Is Like a Violin, single by Tír na nÓg

[edit] Other

• Violin authentication, process of determining the maker and date of a violin
• Violin concerto, concerto]] written for solo violinists and orchestra
• Violin sonata, sonata solo violin musical composition
• List of compositions for violin and orchestra
• List of violinists
• One Thousand Violins, an eighties indie-pop group

[edit] See also

• Fiddle